Definitions

1. Famines were frequent in some areas, and the people were impoverished.
2. Famines are the largest indirect hazard produced by volcanic eruptions. (Web site)

Greatest Famines

1. Scarcely five years into the British East India Company's rule, the catastrophic Bengal famine of 1770, one of the greatest famines of history occurred. (Web site)

Historians

1. Many historians assert that the disruption caused by collectivization was largely responsible for major famines.

Floods

1. The peasants, having suffered floods and famines in the late 1840s, were ripe for rebellion, which came under the leadership of Hong Xiuquan. (Web site)

Southern India

1. Cotton, Sir Arthur Thomas British irrigation engineer whose projects averted famines and stimulated the economy of southern India.

Years

1. Droughts and famines in Russia tended to occur on a fairly regular basis, with famine occurring every 10–13 years.

Wars

1. Three quarters of the planet will suffer from famines & wars in the next few years & the need for solutions must be worked out without delay. (Web site)

Unrest

1. Famines and natural disasters hit hard, and unrest led to a peasant uprising against officials and merchants in Osaka in 1837.

Demographics

1. Wars, famines, and disease epidemics had a dramatic effect on the demographics of Italy. (Web site)

Drought

1. Since the 1950s, drought induced famines have hit Konso and the immediate area almost once every ten years.

Disasters

1. Furthermore, a succession of plagues, famines, floods, and other disasters besieged Baghdad, destroying thousands of houses and killing thousands of people. (Web site)

Earthquakes

1. Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for practices to do to avert "natural" disasters such as famines, flood, earthquakes, drought, etc.
2. At the end of the Heian Period warfare also broke out between competing samurai clans, while people suffered from earthquakes and series of famines.

Epidemics

1. Eventually this leads to famines, epidemics, state breakdown, and demographic and civilization collapse (Peter Turchin.
2. Jesus Christ will purify His people through cruel wars, famines, plagues, epidemics, and other horrible calamities. (Web site)

India

1. Famines in India facilitates the recruitment of indentured Indian labourers for white employers in the Colonies.
2. More tellingly, the latter half of the 19th century also saw an increase in the number of large-scale famines in India.
3. In India, food production has grown by a factor of ten, leading to the elimination of massive famines. (Web site)

Border War

1. But the nation is better known for its periodic droughts and famines, its long civil conflict and a border war with Eritrea. (Web site)

Natural Disasters

1. After independence the new state endured famines, natural disasters and widespread poverty, as well as political turmoil and military coups. (Web site)

Famine

1. Famine racked the subcontinent many times, including at least two major famines in Bengal.

Misfortunes

1. We spoke first about the broken weather, and then he began talking in a mournful voice of the famines and misfortunes that have been in Ireland.

Famines

1. But in the first half of the 20th century, China was beset by major famines, civil unrest, military defeats, and foreign occupation. (Web site)
2. In the first half of the 20th century, China continued to suffer from major famines, civil unrest, military defeat, and foreign occupation. (Web site)
3. China in the 1930s had other problems as well including civil unrest and major famines.

Categories

1. Civil Unrest
2. Foreign Occupation
3. Military Defeat
4. Misfortunes
5. Famine

Subcategories

Starvation

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